New York City’s Beastie Boys are set to play the All Points West Music & Arts Festival on Friday, July 31, alongside Q-Tip, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Pharcyde, Organized Konfusion and many more.

With he release of their first vocal album since 2004 Hot Sauce Committee eminent, Ad-Rock commented to Billboard, “it’s a lot of vocals, a lot of words — very wordy. And it’s political, depending on what you call political. You know, if toilet talk and fart jokes are political, which they can be, in that sense yeah, very.”

Check out this album which features remixes of Al Green’s classics with artists such as Jay Z, Common, Fugees, Method Man, MF Doom, Busta Rhymes, The Pharcyde, Notorious B.I.G., De La Soul, AZ, Nas, Pharaohe Monch and Mos Def.

The Green Album is a free download! But if you love the album as much as I do, please donate to Stay True. Stay True is a Philadelphia based non-profit organization dedicated to offering under-privileged, at-risk youth the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to become powerful agents of social/political change in their communities.